The building of the passive network infrastructure is often the biggest single cost in a new network deployment. Fiwave understands that large savings can be made through design approach and choice of materials whether it is a fibre or copper fixed line network or a licensed or unlicensed wireless network. We aim to minimise costs and maximise performance and flexibility and our project managers work closely with civils contractors and our client’s project managers to mitigate costs where possible.

Passive network technology is now a very active area with constant innovation and change in standards development, products and installation techniques. Fiwave is on a constant lookout for new standards, products and installation techniques to further reduce installation and operation costs associated with passive network infrastructure.

Fiwave practices systems design driven by business requirements. Passive infrastructure design and implementation is tied to active network design and implementation in order to optimize parameters such as overall network performance and budget. If passive design was conducted as a silo activty, and without understanding and consideration for the active network and services, the result would generally be sub-optimal. Examples of this balanced approach to passive and active network design include selection of PoP density and placement, selection of active technology and optimisation of operational costs through use of lights-out PoPs.

Fiwave's team has experience in computer aided network design through simulation and modeling. In the fixed line networks space, our team has performed overall costs optimization through placement of PoPs and automated backhaul network design and estimation, taking into account all known possibilities per PoP. In the wireless space our team has experience with design of hotspot, P-t-P and P-t-MP systems including simulation of predicted coverage on in-building and macro scales.